Grain Chain Episode 5: Milling

Once the grain has grown, the next step on the Grain Chain is to see how it’s milled to make flour.

So for that we need… you got it – a mill! Now when you think of mills you might think of wind mills, or water wheels…

But the mills today are much MUCH bigger.

Whilst those old types of mills did the job pretty well for thousands of years, the flour they made was rather coarse. Modern mills, like this one, make much finer flour and a lot of it which is good because they need to grind over five million tonnes of grain every year!

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